All 3 Uses of
grotesque
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Between the tower and the church was a close screen, the door of which was kept shut during services, hiding this grotesque clockwork from sight.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition.†
Chpt 46-48
- There was, so to speak, that symmetry in their distortion which is less the characteristic of British than of Continental grotesques of the period.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(grotesque) distorted and unnatural in shape or size -- especially in a disturbing way
or:
ugly, gross, or very wrong